People need to take the duty to vote seriously

10:25 PM,
Aug. 16, 2013

Written by

Dorothy Engelman
Looking Forward

A whopping 5,204 of us living in St. George took time from busy lives to cast ballots in St. George's primary election on Tuesday! Where were the other 31,370 registered voters? You're correct if you caught my undertone of disgust and frustration.

How can we get more than 14.2 percent of the voters in St. George to the polls? Has voting become an obsolete activity in Utah? Has it gone the way of wringer washers, the rotary phone or 8-track tapes? To the people who say we're losing our constitutional rights, are they being "taken away" or are we throwing them away? ...